The Democratization of Semantic Properties: An Analysis of Semantic Wikis

Abstract

Semantic wikis augment wikis with semantic properties that can be used to aggregate and query data through reasoning. Semantic wikis are used by many communities, for widely varying purposes such as organizing genomic knowledge, coding software, and tracking environmental data. Although wikis have been analyzed extensively, there has been no published analysis of the use of semantic wikis. In this paper, we analyze twenty semantic wikis selected for their diverse characteristics and content. We analyze the property edits and compare to the total number of edits in the wiki. We also show how semantic properties are created over the lifetime of the wiki.